Pauline Repard

Writer

Pauline Repard covers legal affairs, crime and public safety news in San Diego County. She joined The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1988, and since then has reported police, fire and court news in every corner of the county. Repard grew up in San Diego County and earned a journalism degree at California State University Fullerton. Before joining the U-T, she worked as a reporter for the Whittier Daily News, The Vista Press and The San Diego Daily Transcript. She has won news writing awards from the San Diego Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Recent Articles

A 26-year-old woman who robbed a pregnant woman in her Pacific Beach home then stole a police car and dumped it in Mission Bay was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison. Stephanie Majsterski read a statement in San Diego Superior Court, apologizing to the victim and to the officers for...

Marijuana had been growing inside a garage that caught fire at an Oceanside rental home late Thursday night, officials said. No one was home when firefighters got to the house on Carolyn Circle about 11:40 p.m. They found flames and heavy smoke coming from the garage, Oceanside fire Battalion Chief...

Ten Mexican citizens were taken into custody when their alleged smuggling boat was intercepted about 27 miles off the La Jolla shore, federal officials said Friday. The eight men, including the suspected smuggler, and two women were taken off a pleasure craft first seen 14 miles west of the Coronado...

It was out of character for the Vista wife and mother of three girls to leave home without notice — and not return. Almost a year has passed since Maria Elena Guzman-Cordova disappeared under what sheriff’s homicide investigators call suspicious circumstances. On Thursday, investigators once again...

A man caught looting homes vacated during the West fire in Alpine in July has been convicted of breaking into one home and trying to get into a second one. Ardian Iseni, 30, faces up to seven years, four months in state prison when he is sentenced on Oct. 26, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The 500-acre...

A man accused of killing or wounding a dozen homeless people around San Diego in 2016 will have a trial to determine whether he is mentally competent to face criminal charges in what could be a death penalty case, a judge ordered Wednesday. Jon David Guerrero, 41, remains at Patton State Hospital...

A La Jolla real estate agent and former guitarist for local tribute band Fooz Fighters had “thousands” of child pornography images on his phone and computer, a prosecutor said in court Tuesday. Donald Edward Hickey, 61, appeared in a San Diego Superior Court pre-trial arraignment and pleaded not...

San Diego police were looking for a hit-and-run driver who injured a 37-year-old bicyclist in a collision in the Chollas View neighborhood Saturday night. A witness reported hearing the impact and screeching tires about 7:30 p.m. on 47th Street near Hilltop Drive, police said. Officers and medics...